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The Eric Gleacher Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$212k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$6.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Eric Gleacher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$212k38%
FY202311$85k36%
FY20227$171k43%
FY202110$81k20%
FY202011$202k36%
FY201910$658k30%
FY201812$5.4M42%
FY201713$226kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$6.2MEducation$385kHealth$284kPhilanthropy$79kArts & Culture$49kReligion$28kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($277k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Eric Gleacher Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwestern University: $6,152,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMarine Corps-Law Enforcement Founda Foundation Inc: $59,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetStudent Advocacy Inc: $49,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetThe James C Ferrer Educational Fundinc (Formerly Shinnecock Hills Educational ): $38,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Illinois University Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNyu Langone Hospitals: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michelle McGann Fund Inc: $18,850 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLighthouse Guild International Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Golf Club Educational Fund Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNational Golf Links of America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVinceremos Riding Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPalm Beach Navy Seal Evening of Tribute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJames B Lee Jr Scholarship Fund in Honor of Joseph a McBride: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOn Course Foundation USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Thirty Six East Sixty Second Street Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Chapin School Ltd: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Atlantic Golf Club Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetThe Maidstone Charitable Trust: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMetropolitan Golf Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Golf Club Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Southampton Fresh Air Home: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen Golfers Give Back: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable FoundationNY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Raether Family Charitable Trust · Mutual of America Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · A Haigh Cundey Foundation · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Cornell University Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to The Eric Gleacher Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Eric Gleacher Foundation

How much does The Eric Gleacher Foundation give?
The Eric Gleacher Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $211,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Eric Gleacher Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (88%), Education (5%), Health (4%).
Who are The Eric Gleacher Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northwestern University ($6.2M), University of Chicago ($125k), Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ($70k).
Does The Eric Gleacher Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Eric Gleacher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Eric Gleacher Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Raether Family Charitable Trust.
Where is The Eric Gleacher Foundation based?
The Eric Gleacher Foundation is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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